Mass Effect 2 Walkthrough & Strategy Guide

To earn Jacob's trust, you're going to have to help him out on a personal matter, much like you just did with Miranda over on Illium (and much like you'll do with the rest of your party's characters eventually). You can find Jacob near the CIC, in his usual spot in the weapons lab. When you speak with him, you'll learn that a personal matter has been on his mind lately. Though he swears it's not affecting his work, it still seems to be affecting him deeply on an emotional level. Speak with him about the subject, and you'll learn that he received a distress call on his personal log from his father's ship. The thing is, his father's ship crashed ten years ago, and he hasn't heard from him in over thirteen years. His dad, and the rest of his shipmates, have been presumed dead, but now... now there's no telling what happened. Agree to help him out, and you'll pick up this quest.

Our location is a fairly simple one to find, though you're going to want to make sure you have plenty of fuel and some probes before you make the journey. Head to the nearest Mass Relay (after examining the galaxy map onboard your ship), and travel to the Rosetta Nebula. You'll end up in the Enoch system, but you actually need to travel towards Alpha Draconis, which is where having a healthy supply of fuel comes in. One you end up in the Alpha Draconis system, seek out the planet known as 2175 Aeia. It's the closest-orbiting planet to its host star. However, because the planet is charted, but not yet surveyed and explored, you're going to have to do a bit of work before you can actually land.

Begin by scanning the planet, following the on-screen prompts to track the signal coming off of the planet's surface (remember -- you have to follow the white line within the scanning circle to track down the precise source of said signal). Then, once you've found the precise location of the signal, launch a probe at it, and you'll find precisely what you're looking for. All that's left to do now is to land on the planet at the location the probe went, which the game will do for you automatically. What you'll find on the surface, as your landing ship comes down, is a tropical planet with plenty of plant life on it. Just what else are we going to find down here? Well, we'll find out soon enough.